Phil McGraw Quotes

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals